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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the fields by that night?
(a) They are dry and cracked.
(b) They are all watered.
(c) They burn.
(d) They turn green almost instantaneously.

2. What does Adam finally decide to do about the situation at home?
(a) Refuse to work anymore.
(b) Ask his pa to build a new well.
(c) Leave home.
(d) Use Blinn's card.

3. Why is Rowena unable to go anywhere?
(a) She has to take care of Henry.
(b) She is ill.
(c) She is embarrassed about Henry.
(d) She has sprained her ankle.

4. What does Sam suggest they do for Henry?
(a) Notify his parents of his situation.
(b) Feed him some fertilizer.
(c) Make him more comfortable.
(d) Leave him alone to sulk.

5. About what does Sam learn in the library?
(a) The care of sycamores.
(b) The care of oaks.
(c) The lifespan of dogwoods.
(d) Magic.

6. What does Adam dig for his mother's garden?
(a) Rows and mounds.
(b) Holes for her to plant dahlias.
(c) Holes for fence posts.
(d) Holes for her to plant daffodils.

7. What do Stew Meat, Adam, Polly and Rowena realize?
(a) That Stew Meat's card is no good.
(b) Polly can speak normally.
(c) Adam has a vision of his family's farm drying up.
(d) Rowena feels like a great weight is lifted off her shoulders.

8. When does Adam have to go back to school?
(a) After the three-day weekend.
(b) The next morning.
(c) After the summer in a couple months.
(d) As soon as exams start the next week.

9. What does Henry demand Rowena do?
(a) Finding a spell to change him back.
(b) Getting the fire department out to help.
(c) Trying to pull him out of the ground.
(d) Focus on helping him.

10. Who is the first person narrator in the Epilogue?
(a) Stew Meat.
(b) Adam.
(c) Sam.
(d) Polly.

11. Why is the farm in danger?
(a) The loan note is due.
(b) It is not in danger.
(c) It is in a valley and can be flooded.
(d) There is a wild fire approaching.

12. Why does Adam have to go down to the river regularly?
(a) To haul water.
(b) To fish for his family's meals.
(c) To collect river rocks to build a pool.
(d) To work on a dam he is building to divert water to the fields.

13. What does Adam notice at four neighboring farms?
(a) They are gearing up to help harvest the corn from Adam's family's fields.
(b) Lights going on.
(c) They are all willing to help Adam andhis family.
(d) They are having the same problem as Adam's family.

14. What does Rowena mutter when Adam sits behind her in class?
(a) That Henry deserves his fate.
(b) Something about stuck feet.
(c) That Adam better be a lucky boy if he uses his card.
(d) That Polly is the cause of her problems.

15. What does Rowena realize when she thinks back to the day in Blinn's tent?
(a) That Blinn's eyes glowed.
(b) That there were other cards handed out.
(c) That Blinn seemed semi-transparent.
(d) That there was an instruction manual about the cards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Adam happily contemplate as he goes to sleep?

2. What is the situation when Adam wakes the next morning?

3. Where does the Epilogue open?

4. What does Adam think is unfair?

5. Why does Adam harness the horses to the wagon?

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